pygame - importing GL - very bad...

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:32 +0100, someone wrote:

> See this code (understand why I commented out first line):
> 
> # from OpenGL.GL import *
[...]
> The reason why I commented out the first line is that I use "pylint" and
> it reports: "[W] Redefining built-in 'format'" for this line.
> 
> From: http://www.logilab.org/card/pylintfeatures tell: W0621: Redefining
> name %r from outer scope (line %s) Used when a variable's name hide a
> name defined in the outer scope.
> 
> I don't like to redefine already defined names so therefore I had to
> outcomment first line and then keep on adding stuff until I could run my
> program... But this SUCKS! I can see that pygame hasn't been updated for
> a long while - not many users use it? I'm not very happy about this...

from pygame import *
del format


pylint may still complain, but you can ignore it. By deleting the name 
"format", that will unshadow the builtin format.


-- 
Steven